...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' One more example of homely doctrine in a pleasing poetical dress must be quoted, for it is a general...

...Chapman, t Longfellow. The hcighU by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; Bat they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward...too long we bore, With shoulders bent, and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly...

...what we slight than by what we fear. " THE heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. — It is not generally known that the completion of this bridge was effected...

...the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight,...the night. ' Standing on what too long we bore With shou Iders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies....

...higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 1 Nor deem the irrevocable Past,...

...airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." t * Sermons by John Henry Newman, p. 65. Rivington. t John viii. 29. t Miles Standish and other Poems,...

...victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious...

...scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more The cloudy summits of our time The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." In a country like America men of sound minds, who recognise in the family the...

...victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious...

...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight,...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past...